"Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at……" — Italo Calvino

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every… - Italo Calvino

"Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie."

— Italo Calvino

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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.…
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he…
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's…
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same…

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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our… — Paul Auster
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — Alfred Austin
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom… — Bryan Adams
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — HonorÈ De Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — HonorÈ De Balzac
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at… — Tyra Banks
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the… — Bruce Barton
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. — Bernard Baruch
If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I… — Kate Beckinsale
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. — Warren G. Bennis
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. — Warren G. Bennis

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